TCT-278 Radiation Safety: Every Little Bit Helps

Methods As a quality improvement project, the default pulse/second rate was reduced from 10 to 7.5 in all fluoroscopy machines in the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Six months of data, including radiation dose (Ka,r in mGys), number of stents, age, height, w...

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Published inJournal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 66; no. 15; p. B109
Main Authors Hansen, James W, Ettinger, Steven, Mahidhar, Ravilla, Chambers, Charles, Foy, Andrew, Kozak, Mark, Al-Howaidi, Islam A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier Inc 13.10.2015
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Cardiology
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular disease
Confidence intervals
Internal Medicine
Intubation
Quality
Standard deviation
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Summary:Methods As a quality improvement project, the default pulse/second rate was reduced from 10 to 7.5 in all fluoroscopy machines in the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Six months of data, including radiation dose (Ka,r in mGys), number of stents, age, height, weight (and therefore BSA), risk factors for coronary artery disease, indication for catheterization and intraprocedural complication rates for patients undergoing PCI were reviewed and compared with nine months of baseline data that preceded the pulse rate reduction.
ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2015.08.292